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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 May 2013
      18 April 2013
      ISBN:
      9780511920493
      9781107009066
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511920493
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.52kg, 348 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Classical Studies, Area Studies, History, European Studies, European History 450-1000
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    Ancient History, Classical Studies, Area Studies, History, European Studies, European History 450-1000
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    The Huns have often been treated as primitive barbarians with no advanced political organisation. Their place of origin was the so-called 'backward steppe'. It has been argued that whatever political organisation they achieved they owed to the 'civilizing influence' of the Germanic peoples they encountered as they moved west. This book argues that the steppes of Inner Asia were far from 'backward' and that the image of the primitive Huns is vastly misleading. They already possessed a highly sophisticated political culture while still in Inner Asia and, far from being passive recipients of advanced culture from the West, they passed on important elements of Central Eurasian culture to early medieval Europe, which they helped create. Their expansion also marked the beginning of a millennium of virtual monopoly of world power by empires originating in the steppes of Inner Asia. The rise of the Hunnic Empire was truly a geopolitical revolution.

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    'Gets my vote for the freshness of its worldview.'

    Peter Heather Source: BBC History Magazine

    'Kim argues that the Huns played a large and positive role in the fall of Rome and the birth of Europe … This challenging reassessment … should be in all research libraries. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.'

    G. G. Guzman Source: Choice

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